Part 3

Secular Attitudes

With the truth of Data Point One and the understanding that Christianity is not belief and not opinion, but actuality and truth, it makes sense to convert to becoming a born again Christian. This follows God’s will that we as individuals learn the truth and choose to become a proper servant — the alternative being that we remain in mortal sin and go to hell when we die, Heaven forbid. So in light of this we have to wrap our heads around what that means, and what it means to be good and hold good values. With upwards of 70 democracies around the world in 2024 holding elections, this would appear to be a year of consequence for the United States, and for the world as well.

In voting people often choose from two options and we have to discern: to change or not to change. That is the question. We vote on principle and bring our own personal attitudes into the voting booth. In previous posts I covered the topics of abortion, controlling the US border, climate change, and democracy. Here I lump remaining topics into a third post: secular attitudes.

The USA was founded on Judeo-Christian values in the year 1620 under a covenant with God we now call the Mayflower Compact. As previously discoursed we are however, a secular nation, generally in the interests of freedoms for all peoples.

This has led to an exceptional experiment in human freedom. As “the great melting pot”, we’ve grown up in a society of societies – a culture of cultures comprised of heritages, foods, and languages from all over the world. It’s led to the industrial revolution, professional sports, rock and roll, Star Trek, satellite television, the computer age, and the Internet.

Historians are aware that historically corruption eventually seeps into empires and governments. Even thousands of years ago in the Old Testament the Israelites got compromised into idol worship and sexual immorality – even King Solomon, a king who had every heart’s desire.

Perverted Lifestyles

So in the USA and in the West – Western Civilization – people have had their bouts with corruption in the unscrupulous seeking of wealth and pleasure. This has led to various socially liberal experimentations. Sexual promiscuity became just part of the Human story. The selfish and corrupt infidelity of high school was an aspect of maturation. The egoism lead to legalization of abortion and a rise in divorce rates. The rise of pornography derailed countless people’s lives. People began to advocate for taboo behavior or “alternative lifestyles” (code for bi-sexual or homosexual) to be respected as just another option in keeping with American freedom. Eventually laws were passed to codify this attitude.

Some people, despite not living such a lifestyle, have the principle that supporting such people and a highly sexually liberal society is correct, American, and in keeping with American freedom. While it may be true from a secular perspective, it’s not what God intended for His children. Some people hold to the opposite approach that perverts should not be encouraged — that one’s children or one’s relatives should not grow up to be perverts, or to be so corruptly selfish as to not respect a monogamous lifestyle. God’s intentions for Humanity are clear in scripture.

In Leviticus 18:22 God described any homosexuality as a detestable sin. Other translations describe it as disgusting, or abhorrent, or an abomination, which means shamefully vile.

Once upon a time there were two towns in the Middle East by the names of Sodom and Gomorrah. It’s where we get the word sodomy. They were so sexually wicked and corrupt that, as described in Genesis 19:24, God sent angels to completely destroy the towns with fire from the sky.

This seems very distant, being some 4,000 years ago, and some would hold a Bible story as mere mythology, however it is history. It was reality whatever year it occurred.

Even if a “Christian” church flies a pride flag or welcomes in the LGBT pervert crowd, God didn’t one day decide that perverts are not unclean, and that a gay “Christian” couple doesn’t have to repent of sexual corruption and a sinful lifestyle. (This isn’t equivocal to an interracial marriage which was taboo some decades ago, and now rather accepted.) As it is written, such a lifestyle is abominable. This is part of the challenge of good versus evil, in how evil would suggest that sin is good or necessary.

If supporting perverts and perverts rights was once a political position that was important to you, as a Christian you have to change that affiliation. God wants those people to see the error of their ways and change.

Transgenderism

A man dressing in drag – a cross-dresser – is not the same as a woman. A male that has gender reassignment surgery and takes on the appearance of a woman and loses “the manhood” still can’t bear children and nurse them because he wasn’t born with the anatomy to do so. Likewise a female taking testosterone treatments still won’t develop the muscular attributes that a natural born male would. That’s reality. The mental illness is called gender dysphoria and, while it’s a free country, people should be discouraged from believing that such a lie could ever be true. If it’s a co-worker and it’s a done deal, then avoid being impolite, recognizing that they need all the mental integrity they can keep. But clearly, males should not compete in female league sports, and proper, credentialed conservatives are clear on this political position.

Narcotics

Legal or not, we should eliminate or reduce dependencies. Addiction is something anybody can face. You want to avoid things that are not meeting a natural need, like food does. Even with food you have to avoid over indulgence and be responsible with your body. Don’t vote to legalize marijuana because even if it’s on the ballot as “medicinal”, it’s a scam by the same people orchestrating the ballot measure to one day make it “recreational”. Big money or not, capitalism or not, it’s immoral. It’s bad for society with increased car accidents and birth defects. It has even been shown to cause schizophrenia in some with the first experience. It can cause permanent brain alteration in people under 26. (Age 26 is when people have measured that the adult brain is fully matured.) Not so long ago it was the hip political position to promote decriminalization with a more libertarian attitude of permitting a person to indulge responsibly. But that was more of a lobbyist perspective of disingenuously downplaying and hiding the actual risks. More betrayal.

Fiscal Responsibility

In the past 3½ years the Democrat party has been in control of the government via the presidency and the Senate. True, we were emerging out of a global pandemic with a heretofore unexpected supply chain crisis. The way things played out, our government printed too much money and drove up inflation causing an economic crunch for all but the wealthy. (Ironically, they turn around and play the class warfare rhetoric card.) Interest rates went up to compensate, causing an increase in the borrowing costs of money, making credit for a car or a home less affordable. True, both the Trump-Pence administration and the Biden-Harris administration spent money and added to the national debt. True the Biden-Harris administration pulled back on domestic oil production until they realized they had no choice but to surreptitiously seek to increase it again. It would seem that the country was, excepting the pandemic, handled better under President Trump and his advisors, rather than President Biden and his advisors. It’s said that Republican lawmakers and advisors are more fiscally responsible based on their experiences of being business owners and entrepreneurs, and that the Democrat lawmakers and advisors are more typically academics without the real-world experience involving risk. Regardless, going forward we will need wise stewards to meet the challenges of righting the economy, avoiding, if possible, a recession or a depression, managing the money supply and the obligations of the national debt. The Republicans are the party of wisdom and responsible governance, not that they always get things perfect.

These moral parameters should advise you as to the moral voting principles as an American Christian, following virtues of charity, prudence, and justice, in the impending 2024 elections on Tuesday, November 5th. In conclusion, conservatism represents a better attitude period. A better attitude makes all the difference.

Part 2

Democracy

We don’t live in a perfect democracy. In the USA we have what’s called a representative republic. Under our constitution we elect representatives to meet and debate and set and adjust public policy. What we have at the federal level, senators and representatives with the Senate and the House of Representatives, is basically duplicated at the state level for state governments, as well. For the presidential election the highest popular vote doesn’t always result in determining the winner. What happens is that each state has a number of special people called electors, and they take the vote tally of their state to cast their vote for president. We could call our government system a democracy, however that is rather a figurative term here.

We have three branches of federal government: Legislative (Congress, comprised of the Senate and the House of Representatives), Judicial (federal police, plus the courts with the Supreme Court at the top), and Executive (the Presidency, along with various departments comprising the Cabinet). They have checks and balances against power. Being a free society, we have the press, which historically has been referred to as the Fourth Estate, as the media acts as a fourth check and balance against the government. These amount to checks against corruption. Citizens can ascertain corruption and elect differently.

We have primarily two political parties. The Republican party is on “the right” – the conservative spectrum, clinging to traditional morality and values. The Democrat party is on “the left” – the progressive, and socially liberal spectrum. So what happens when many media publications and TV networks are, instead of apolitical and impartial, openly Democrat? In the past TV news was thought to be largely impartial. Now, without intentionally seeking conservative media, you get news practically custom-tailored by the Democratic National Committee. The mainstream media is your sound bite driven media of the big three networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC), or cable news that isn’t intentionally conservative. CNN and MSNBC can be fed stories, narratives, and political operatives to offer bias and opinion by the DNC. Conservative networks like Fox News, NewsMax, or OAN provide a voice of dissent from what 90% of the other TV news will be running with. Without conservative media, we would have a one party state, fully Democrat.

This has led to distorted perspectives of reality among much of the US population who is what you might call a low-information voter. This type may catch 30 minutes of national TV news on weeknights or on occasion. They may have a distaste for politics, or don’t see the need to broaden their news palate.

Without an eye or an ear to conservative media, you would miss out on particular truths that come to light. After the 2020 federal election where former Vice President Joe Biden won both the popular vote and the electoral vote over him, President Trump was dissatisfied. His campaign had received reports of stories of election fraud, and no court would allow any investigation to proceed. On January 6, 2021 Trump supporters held a large rally in Washington D.C. of some tens of thousands of people. Within were some bad actors, as well as an estimated hundreds of Federal agents blended in with the crowd. The chief of the Capitol Police (now former) has since stated that something fishy was going on with security on that day, that he could tell was deficient, and he testifies that he was strangely kept out of the loop. Toward the end of a speech President Trump advised supporters to “peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard”. Later over at the Capitol Building, some bad actors began to violently force the guards surrounding the Capitol to abandon their perimeter, enabling people to push into the building. Many in the crowd, in herd mentality, followed them in. Many guards gave up and held the doors open for masses of people.

The scenes caught on camera were appalling — to see an institution of the United States being flooded into by a mob, who suddenly was not violent, but more curious and mischievous. TV news called the breach of the Capitol an “insurrection”, which being an attempt to overthrow the government, isn’t accurate. To blame President Trump for an insurrection, or to blame him for the bad actors, is also inaccurate. The word insurrection was repeatedly plastered in headlines and spoken of with the accusation that President Trump was the instigator. Reports in the media were crafted with Democrat bias so as to suggest that President Trump sought to unlawfully retain power and override the election votes.

What followed was a deceptively biased televised January 6th Commission investigation, which withheld exculpatory evidence and edited video to score political points through deceit. That led to an attempted impeachment of then former President Trump which was unsuccessful. During this impeachment, President Trump’s lawyers presented evidence that the mainstream media lied about him in the aftermath of a horrible protester and counter-protester fight in Charlottesville, North Carolina. Fundamentally that was a public dispute about removing confederate statues which led to a maniac driving into a crowd and killing an innocent woman. If you start this video at about the 13 minute 13 second mark and watch about 3½ minutes in, you will see that deceptive editing on all major networks (except conservative leaning) was used to unapologetically defame President Trump.

Sidebar: Here is a slightly longer starting point at the 10 minute 32 mark that covers deceptive editing on the part of the J6 Committee.

He was presented in the sound bite driven TV newscasts as having made a moral equivocation between the two protesting parties. The famous sound bite quotes him as saying “there were very fine people on both sides.” Considering there was a nutty white supremacist group in the crowd, that makes the President look pretty bad as making a moral equivocation like that. It makes him sound sympathetic to such a group. So seeing only the edited clip, millions of future 2020 election voters saw that, and just like the DNC wanted, they were fed a lie and they saw him as an unsupportable racist. Whether you were paying attention at the time, or can remember that far back or not, with the YouTube video above, you can see the truth for yourself. During his news conference with a challenging press he stated “Excuse me, I saw the same pictures as you did.” What he then said was:

“I’m not talking about the neo-nazis and the white nationalists because they should be condemned, totally. But you had many people in that group other than neo-nazis and white nationalists, okay? And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly. Now in the other group also you had some fine people, but you also had trouble makers. And you see them come with the black outfits and with the helmets and with the baseball bats – you gotta. You had a lot of bad – you had a lot of bad people in the other group too.”

The sin of omission gave liberal journalists the opening to ask 2020 presidential candidate Trump if he would renounce white supremacism, as if he had never weighed in on the topic after Charlottesville, because the American public was only given a particular sound bite. In asking President Trump to denounce white supremacy, that tied the stink of the phrase to him and perpetuated an image of the president as if he were racist, and as if that were a necessary question. Multiple so-called journalists tried this tactic. In the light of the truth, this was slimy. However at the time it furthered the goal of the DNC that they would return to political power, by influencing voters.

President Biden even in the 2020 election cycle claimed that opposing a racist president (based on the Charlottesville media lie) was what spurred him to run for the presidency, with his high platitude of “fighting for the soul of America”.

In the same election season evidence of Biden’s own past of corruption of enriching him and his family by influence peddling with foreign governments and foreign companies, was suppressed as “Russian disinformation”. It was suppressed at large scale by Twitter and Facebook to prevent discussion of relevant news under orders from those inside the government, at the time captained by Trump, and unbeknownst to him. This is an example of what came to be called the deep state. The gist is that Democrats in various government positions wanted to inhibit the Trump and Republican agenda illegally, and to use government powers to have a Democrat elected to the presidency. The net effect was to swing power back to the Democrats. Some voters were able to learn about the corruption of the Biden family, but only through conservative media such as talk radio, Fox News, and other freer online outlets.

Much controversy was made by President Trump believing that the 2020 election was stolen from him. Allegations were made that his campaign sought to steal it back with a slate of false electors. Historically, if there was a dispute then alternate electors may have needed to have been used, and so they would have followed historical precedent, had that been needed. Allegations were made that he wanted to bully the state of Georgia in the lead up to the transition of power on January 20 for 11,000 votes that would win him the state. Various institutions where Democrats are in power have sought to interfere with the 2024 Trump campaign, based on assertions and mischaracterizations wherever possible.

Some say that people who watch CNN or MSNBC don’t know anything. Some say that people who watch Fox News don’t know anything. What I tell people is that you get news and you get opinion. You have to separate the two in your mind. You have to discern when hearing, like you would when reading something. In conservative media, they wouldn’t state something without being able to back it up. Instead with liberal news and pundits you may get something stated in a very emotionally laden manner as if it were fact, when it’s not. Likewise I’ve observed that news writers in the mainstream media may exhibit a short memory regarding things they’ve reported in the past. Conservative commentators have the longest memory.

So democracy is threatened when checks against corruption fail, many of which I’ve referenced here. Conservative commentators have called an irrational dislike of or hatred of President Trump, “Trump Derangement Syndrome”. It’s an effect of being misled or “programmed” to that behavior of dislike or hatred. Many voters don’t see how they have been used. The tribal, partisan mentality can be a result of manipulation that can be hard to break free from.

Trump’s political opponents hurled the word “chaos” at him on the campaign trail without getting into specifics. Chaos effectively boils down to an exaggeration and gross oversimplification to him firing various staffers at various points in his four year term. It’s clear that as a manager he wanted team members that pursued what he wanted, and were onboard with his vision. Compare that with a pro baseball manager changing out players during the course of a season. Chaos?

Former President Trump isn’t so much a divisive figure, as much as his political opposition has made him out to be. The DNC has, in their strategy of media domination, invented a caricature persona that looks like him that they can vilify and use to divide. What is remarkable is that when he is attacked rhetorically, he doesn’t take it, and often he retaliates. He doesn’t cave to the political weaponry that would normally work, and that drives the liberal pundits to desperation.

My takeaway is that conservatism is right. Its heart is in the right place. Vote “right”. If you don’t already patronize conservative media, especially talk radio personalities, expand where you source your news from. Fox News, for example, consistently has higher ratings than CNN and MSNBC combined. As a new Christian you may see many things differently when you embrace that which is intellectually honest.

Next: Secular Attitudes

Archeologists dig for past human civilizations, and paleo-anthropologists dig for bones at locations all around the world. However they keep getting the theory of Neanderthals wrong, due to the reliance on the debunked Theory of Evolution. As we note in Data Point One, the God of the Bible is real, and so the Bible is real, and God’s statements of human history given to Moses in the book of Genesis, are accurate. They’re the God’s Honest Truth in fact. Therefore we can’t regard theories that go against the Truth of God. Neanderthals were always just an imagination that was described, and either illustrated or produced as a mock-up for a museum piece. They never existed.

The theory of evolution has led to gross misunderstandings about humanity. People weren’t an accident of evolution across x number of years. People were created by God. People do have an immortal soul, and we do encounter life after death of our earthly bodies. Sin is real, and we in our judgment are accountable to God. Men didn’t evolve out of a primitive hunter-gatherer way of life before forming cities. Humans don’t have a reptilian part of our brains or our psyches, despite what a clinical psychologist might have learned in their PhD courses. We can’t conflate theory with fact, because when we do, we end up with biases that pollute the whole hypothetical chain of reasoning.

The theory of evolution leaves the paleo-anthropologist to ponder, what must have come before humans, and so artists have constructed “what if” scenarios including various forms of cavemen, including the Cro-magnon and Neanderthal. Human skulls have a natural range of variation in shape. Monkeys and apes are quite different. The latest headlines making the rounds point to another artist’s rendition of a purported sub-human skull, to arrive at a sculpture of a face that might portray what that being might have looked like 75,000 years ago.

https://news.google.com/search?for=75+000+year+old+neanderthal+woman&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen

The date of this supposed corpse is another red flag, as we know Earth is not that old. The Jewish calendar presents us here in the year 2024 as being Hebrew year 5,784. There is some conjecture that the year count is potentially 210 years off, accounting for the years the Israelites were living in Egypt, putting us closer to the year 6,000.

Carbon dating can be accurate for thousands of years, however to go beyond about 6,000, an algorithm must be employed to make the math fit preconceived biases about “how things must surely be”. This amounts to guesswork instead of hard science.

In the past, scientists have intentionally or unwittingly combined skull fragments of a human and of some kind of ape, to present a historically confusing skull as fact, when it’s conjecture at best. Reference this video from Answers in Genesis.

Reference: Genesis 1